GlobalAutoIndustry.com Selects PWB Marketing Communications as Exclusive Marketing Partner

TROY, Mich.--Oct. 1, 20035, 2003--GlobalAutoIndustry.com announced that it has selected PWB Marketing Communications as its exclusive marketing and advertising partner.

Ann Arbor-based PWB is providing GlobalAutoIndustry.com with branding and marketing strategy, graphic and web site evaluation and design. PWB will be featured on the GlobalAutoIndustry.com website and in its seminars, monthly eJournals and quarterly hard-copy business journals.

"We are thrilled to join forces with PWB and work together to make GlobalAutoIndustry.com an even more dynamic force connecting the global automotive community," said Ron Hesse, GlobalAutoIndustry.com president and CEO. "PWB's experience in the auto industry and marketing expertise will enable us to fully develop our extensive marketing tools and take the company to new levels."

"GlobalAutoIndustry.com has put together an outstanding team of resources, both internally and in its partners," said Sean Hickey, PWB's chief operating officer. "We're proud to be in the company of this organization, and we look forward to helping them strengthen their brand."

About PWB Marketing Communications

PWB Marketing Communications provides integrated marketing tools to a wide range of business-to-business, technology, consumer, healthcare, insurance and professional services marketers. Other PWB clients include the Ann Arbor Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ardesta, Asahi, AutoWeek, Bank of Ann Arbor, Citizens Insurance, D-M-E Company, Medstat, RPA Process Technologies, TMP Architecture and The University of Michigan.

To learn more about PWB, visit www.pwb.com.

About GlobalAutoIndustry.com

GlobalAutoIndustry.com connects the worldwide auto supplier industry with the resources to effectively do business globally. Through the web site, www.GlobalAutoIndustry.com, auto supplier executives can find insight, solutions and strategies focused on doing business in the world's top automotive markets.

Monthly eJournals provide targeted information and insight on doing business in foreign markets and GlobalAutoIndustry.com Solutions provide effective international answers to suppliers' global business and operational needs.

Parent company, HCI Group Ltd., is based in Troy, Mich., with European headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

For more information contact Managing Editor Marsha Stopa at (248) 526-3312 or MStopa@GlobalAutoIndustry.com. GAI